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...unwritten book has already achieved a fame of sorts. Morris' reported $3 million advance is a record for such a project, though it will be spread out over eleven years. And the arrangement giving Morris access to most of the inner workings of the White House and a monthly séance with Reagan is brand...
...number of AIDS victims remains relatively low--some 18,070 cases have been reported to date, including 9,591 deaths. But authorities estimate that as many as a million Americans may be carrying the AIDS virus and exposing others to infection: indeed, they say, AIDS is spread primarily by carriers who are not ill. The Public Health Service defines high-risk groups as homosexual men, intravenous drug abusers, prostitutes, the sex partners of infected individuals, and hemophiliacs who receive blood-clotting products. Also designated high risk were natives of Haiti and the Central Africa nations, where heterosexual transmission of AIDS...
...Well, it looks like they've pulled it off," said one Western ambassador in Madrid as a wide smile spread across his face. There were similar signs of relief around Europe and in Washington last week after Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González Márquez achieved a remarkable turnaround in public opinion and won a referendum that will keep Spain in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...mortgage lenders were charging about 10% on 30-year conventional, fixed-rate home loans, compared to 13% a year ago. Says John Duffy, president of the Philadelphia Board of Realtors: "We are just seeing an absolute avalanche of buyers coming in." The surge in the home-building industry will spread to many related businesses as well, from furniture makers to shingle producers. The number of housing starts reached an annual rate of 2.1 million in January, up from 1.8 million the previous month and a low of 1.1 million...
...wary cranes like them: free of predator-concealing vegetation. Today those same sandbars have developed into large islands overgrown with brush and cottonwood trees. Around them the water, only half a mile across, flows in narrow channels too deep for cranes. The result: where the birds used to spread out over 300 miles of river, they now congregate in one 80-mile stretch. As they crowd ever more densely together, thousands could be lost to disease...